ANALYSIS

BMZ and GIZ should be congratulated for starting publication to IATI in March 2013. It has taken the positive step of publishing its IATI data using an attribution-only licence. The current publication is limited however, covering only traditional CRS reporting fields. Germany’s implementation schedule (covering almost all GIZ activities) is moderately ambitious but excludes many of the added-value IATI fields, such as annual activity budgets, documents and performance data. Publication of these fields is under review. GIZ produced a transparency policy in 2011 which is due to be updated to reflect progress and ambitions for IATI publication.[1]

BMZ-GIZ ranks ninth out of 49 bilateral organisations. It is the only German organisation to score on contracts, descriptions, finance type and objectives. It performs well on activity-level financial information. It sometimes provides activity-level results and sub-national location data and evaluations on its website, but not consistently. There is limited information in its IATI organisation file; much of this information is available elsewhere on GIZ or BMZ’s websites, so could be included in the IATI file. Notably, BMZ publishes disaggregated budgets for three years ahead. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, just under two thirds are published in machine-readable formats. BMZ-GIZ’s IATI data does not include project descriptions, planned dates, finance type, sub-national location, tied aid status, conditions, results or forward budgets. Several fields, including finance type, tied aid status and planned dates, are scheduled to be published in September 2013 (also for KfW-related information). It does not score on 11 of the 39 indicators included in the Index.

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